Recorded a 4 piece punk/powerpop band last weekend. Drums, lead and rhythm guitar, bass guitar, lead vocal and back up vocal.
The band wanted a promotional video/music clip of two of their songs. So we set up the whole band in my studio to play live. Had some camera's running to record some video footage.
I recordered 12 tracks into the SX 1 LE plus. Since my DAW has more possibilities to process and edit/mix the recording I transfered the 12 tracks into Presonus Studio One.
I did a pretty basic mix on the SX 1 with eq and compression on some tracks and used effects like Chorus and Reverb from the Tascam. I ended up with a descent sounding live mix I thought but I wanted to see how far I could take it in my DAW.
So I mixed for a couple of days in Studio One but wasn't really satisfied and couldn't get the sound right to my feeling. Going back to the SX 1 I found the sound more live like and realistic.
Going back and forth between SX 1 and DAW I cam to the conclusion that I might have processed to much in Studio One and lost the "live" feeling working more towards a polished studio mix. I made what I thought appropriate changes in order to get back to the live feeling sound the SX 1 so easily produced.
Now I still feel the SX 1 sounds better and I wonder if it is just this case of live mixing that the SX 1 likes so much even though I produced some great studio mixes with the Tascam as well.
Could be the conversion stage to Studio One that makes everything sound cleaner but less live like?
I am a bit puzzled since it only took me several hours to get to what now turns out not just a descent but a very good mix in the Tascam environment and I have have been working up a sweat for days in my DAW and I seem to not even get near what the Tascam achieved.
Anybody with similar experiences or suggestion how this can happen? I am grateful for all your input.
I just hope it is not because I love my Tascam so much and that I psychologically favor this mix over the DAW. I try to keep an open mind and use all my tools to get to the best results for the band.
Harrie
The band wanted a promotional video/music clip of two of their songs. So we set up the whole band in my studio to play live. Had some camera's running to record some video footage.
I recordered 12 tracks into the SX 1 LE plus. Since my DAW has more possibilities to process and edit/mix the recording I transfered the 12 tracks into Presonus Studio One.
I did a pretty basic mix on the SX 1 with eq and compression on some tracks and used effects like Chorus and Reverb from the Tascam. I ended up with a descent sounding live mix I thought but I wanted to see how far I could take it in my DAW.
So I mixed for a couple of days in Studio One but wasn't really satisfied and couldn't get the sound right to my feeling. Going back to the SX 1 I found the sound more live like and realistic.
Going back and forth between SX 1 and DAW I cam to the conclusion that I might have processed to much in Studio One and lost the "live" feeling working more towards a polished studio mix. I made what I thought appropriate changes in order to get back to the live feeling sound the SX 1 so easily produced.
Now I still feel the SX 1 sounds better and I wonder if it is just this case of live mixing that the SX 1 likes so much even though I produced some great studio mixes with the Tascam as well.
Could be the conversion stage to Studio One that makes everything sound cleaner but less live like?
I am a bit puzzled since it only took me several hours to get to what now turns out not just a descent but a very good mix in the Tascam environment and I have have been working up a sweat for days in my DAW and I seem to not even get near what the Tascam achieved.
Anybody with similar experiences or suggestion how this can happen? I am grateful for all your input.
I just hope it is not because I love my Tascam so much and that I psychologically favor this mix over the DAW. I try to keep an open mind and use all my tools to get to the best results for the band.
Harrie
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